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About a month ago, I asked what had happened to the UN’s effort to develop a set of standard operating procedures to govern detentions that arise during the course of UN operations. It appears that such...
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Clive Walker of the University of Leeds writes in with the following update on national security law news from Britain:
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Our little November NSA Trove-a-thon will shift gears now.
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A few weeks ago, Bobby and John reacted to a Washington Post story reporting that seven hundred Afghan detainees at Bagram Air Force Base whom the US transferred to Afghan custody earlier
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This evening, the Senate voted on two GTMO-flavored amendments to the FY2014 National Defense Authorization Act.
One amendment was put forth by Senators Carl Levin and John McCain, and would have (among...
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This latest set of declassified documents is related to programs authorized by Sections 501 and 702 of FISA.
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Two hearings in one week on bitcoin. On Monday, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing on virtual currencies.
Panel I
Jennifer Shasky Calvery (Testimony)
Directo...
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The government has filed its brief in Al Laithi v. Rumsfeld and Celikgogus v. Rumsfeld, a case involving the consolidated claims of former Guantanamo detainees against former government officials in thei...
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Jeremy Hammond was sentenced to 10 years in prison yesterday. That's the maximum sentence he could have gotten for his plea of guilty to a single instance of hacking a computer.
Readers of this blog wi...
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Great.
Just great.
The explosion is not all that impressive, but I sure wouldn't want to be on an airplane when it happened.
More information available here from the aptly-named site, Terminal Cornu...
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This week’s much-anticipated decision by the First Circuit in Mehanna v.
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As Ben previewed yesterday, the First Circuit Court of Appeals, in an opinion written by Judge Bruce M. Selya, affirmed the conviction of Tarek Mehanna on a number of terrorism and false statement charge...
